06-26-2009, 08:30 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
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VirtualNES
vNES
I'm not sure if any of you have heard of this site, but I just retrieved one of mental notes to share this, now perhaps three years after I first stumbled across the website. Sorry about that; better now than never, I guess. For the old school gamer, vNES is a repository and treasured compendium of hundreds of emulated Gameboy, Nintendo, & Super Nintendo games that you can play at your whim through your browser. It doesn't matter if you are hardcore player, a bright-eyed newcomer, or if you are just trying to recapture that youthful exuberance you once felt playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, James Bond Jr., or Mario Is Missing!, I'm sure you'll find a game that'll entertain you on your coffee break. **Jet is currently side-scrolling and taking names playing Shatterhand** For those that wish to know more, here is the service's official aim: Quote:
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06-26-2009, 08:51 AM | #2 (permalink) |
part of the problem
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this is fantastic!!!!!!!!!! brings back wonderful memories of days spent in dark loud arcades, sounds of popping and whizzing and beeping and buzzing. good times, and great fun. thanks Jetee!
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06-26-2009, 09:00 AM | #3 (permalink) |
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Ah, Tecmo Bowl. How I've missed you...
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06-26-2009, 12:12 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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great, my productivity already sucks. this is not going to improve that score at all.... maybe in Bubble Bobble.
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06-26-2009, 12:22 PM | #9 (permalink) | |
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If you happen to know, what is the legitimate terms of fair use through copyright?
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06-26-2009, 12:45 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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We just buy the old games ourselves for our Wii with their Virtual Console service. While their selection is limited in some ways, it has a lot of good games too, and for multiple consoles (including non-Nintendo consoles). We have Super Mario Bros. 3, Punchout!, River City Ransom, Lifeforce, and Altered Beast, among others. I'm told that many of these games were popular back in the day. Personally, I don't find it to be a big "walk down Memory Lane" thing, mostly because I didn't have a Nintendo or a Sega as a kid, but almost all of my friends do.
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06-27-2009, 05:42 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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This thread is really weird because whenever I look at the site's name virtualNES, I see my name in capitals. Strange! Yes, I love myself /threadjack
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06-28-2009, 08:45 AM | #14 (permalink) |
The sky calls to us ...
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I believe the court would hold me innocent of violation if I played games that I owned, but convict them. Fair use covers educational use, criticism, parody (think SNL,) and citation. If a student group wants to show a movie for entertainment in the auditorium, they would have to pay for a license for public screening, not for profit. If they charge admission, change it to public screening, for profit. If a professor wants to show a movie that is related to class (psych classes showing things like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Cybil are common,) it's fair use.
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07-02-2009, 05:38 PM | #17 (permalink) | |
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The benefit of the site in comparison to the Virtual Console as I see it is because of the provincial nature of Nintendo of America, Inc., the company only releases games that were ported to North America as downloadables, so we know nothing of the early history of some of Nintendo's finest games, at least playability-wise; while the site vNES, on the other hand, regularly uploads and features Japanese-exclusive titles that play just as good as before, or even better, due to fansubs/translation addendums. I love being able to take 15 minutes of downtime in the afternoon, and have the versatility provided to me to either play Super Adventure Island (a game in which I have never, ever gotten past level 3 on..) or Mother, (otherwise known as Earthbound's prequel/sequel). It's a beautiful thing.
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07-02-2009, 06:06 PM | #19 (permalink) | |
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"EarthBound takes place on Earth in the year 199X. Throughout the game, four characters, known as the Chosen Four, come to compose the party in the game. They are Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo." (interesting geek factoid: the main nemesis in Earthbound was an alien who threatened to invade the homely American town of Onett, among other locales in his quest for world domination. What was his name in the game? Zoda, who was also a main antagonist racer from the F-Zero series.) /end
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07-02-2009, 06:12 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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ummm.. you know, smoke som... oh never mind.
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07-03-2009, 03:20 AM | #22 (permalink) |
has all her shots.
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My daughters thank you. All three of them.
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07-03-2009, 03:53 AM | #23 (permalink) |
change is hard.
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Earthbound is epic; it is probably tied for best RPG of all time.
SNES, I still think, was the best system for story based gaming. Now it's about graphics and effects, then it was about superior story telling. it's when the medium became a little more advanced and had the wiggle room to create "art".
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